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[quote=Anonymous]Britainy K Barnett’s A Knock at Midnight is a fave. It’s nonfiction. she was, I believe very successful accountant type at a big consulting firm after escaping poverty in her youth. Her mom was jailed for several years when she was young for a drug crime, that if they had been white, she probably would not have served any jail time. It had a profound impact on her. That in itself would make a good story, but the story of the book is how she decides she wants to help people like her mother, so she goes to law school, and in her free time spends nights working to get people out of jail who were or unfairly jailed, or their sentences were way too long for their crime. Completely wonderful education for me about the injustices in our prison system especially for people of color, and also it’s just a really inspiring and well written. [/quote]
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